Finally finally finally!!!

After one extremely long hiatus I made a couple updates to my apps. Colors by Numbers I just changed some ads that I am using. I went for two services that I am just finding out about, AppFlood and StartApp. I like my new strategy if I may say. By now most people know I'm cheap, and out of the that respect I want to make things cheap for my users. AppFlood is a free alternative for me to advertise my apps and draw installs. So, with AppFlood I hopefully will draw in new players, for free, and StartApp pays me a couple cents for each new download of my apps, there is a catch though and not just for me, the user too. StartApp installs bookmarks and a search icon on the main screen. Yes, the user can delete it at anytime without affecting my apps, but I'm sure when that is seen in the description many users turn away from installing the app. Either way, this method seems to be working so far boosting my revenue from before implementation and my installs have actually increased.

My Recent Call Log has just about the same new setup. I have StartApp, but it is paired with AdMob Mediation and Tap for Tap. Admob is a popular ad service startup that has since been consumed by Google and is for use strictly for app services. They have a new mediation service where you can run their ads and other ads together without having too much extra coding in the app itself. So, I have Tap for Tap running 90% of the ads and AdMob the rest of the 10%. Tap for Tap is great for my Recent Call app due to it's show for show policy. Tap for Tap is close in style to AppFlood where as they both offer a one for one free service. AppFlood's is one download for one download. So if a user downloads an app from an ad off your app you will get a download of your app off another app. Tap for Tap will show an ad of your application for every one ad that you show on your app. The potential for growth with this method is much higher since ads are shown each time the user opens the app, where as a click on an ad is far and few between let alone expecting someone to also download the item after clicking on the ad.

Ads are not the only updates I made, for Recent Call I also made major updates to the UI that match the 4.0 for anyone with 4.0 and some tweaks for all users, including fixes for the force closes that were occurring when returning to the app shortly after leaving it! I'm excited about the updates and hope others are too. As always, thanks for the support and thanks for downloading!

P.S. I am still working on incorporating contact photos into the call logs, just trying to figure out the best way possible.

I miss lala.com

I don't mean the disc trading service, nor do I mean the uploading service, but the service that they last left us with. I found it to be the best music services that had promises of new applications for both Android and Apple. With recent news of Spotify limiting their services in a week or so, I am again left to weigh my options with the cheapest and easiest way to get my music fill in. At Purdue I had my internet cut off from illegal downloads off Kazaa, when I then decided to use a new services that let all college students play free libraries... which only last for a few months. I later transferred to Edinboro where everyone got me set up with another illegal downloading of Limewire. But campus was good at eliminating those services and tried my luck with unknown 20 buck a year services that I later found out were also illegal. Rhapsody began to get some popularity and we resorted to 25 free tracks a month, yea, no that sucked! Limewire was installed and uninstalled a few times. Then I finally got a job, Rhapsoday was cool for a few months, sucked when I tried to cancel the membership (picture Peggy from Discover card commercials). Tried Zune, they gave 10 songs DRM free! Oh, the good ol' days of DRM. Tried Napster, tried eMusic, tried eMusic, god, I hated eMusic... Heard many rumors of Apple starting up their own unlimited subscription plans, year after year, and then finally when we all thought it was happening, nope, they did some crap service that I don't even feel like making the effort to search for, something about all year pass to certain singers/bands music, blah. Then Lala popped up (yea, if you haven't noticed, I don't care about my timeline). It sucked, then seemed aight, then was da bomb. As soon as Lala.com started to provide unlimited song plays for 10 cents apiece I was in lala land. I spent more money out of pocket on music then I think I ever have before. I don't think I was alone either with people joining and multiplying on the site daily. Then amazing news of an Apple buyout rolled up and down the internet. "Yay! Apple's buying one of the best music services in the world and going to ensure that it never ever goes out of business because they know how to make music cheap and affordable to all!" So, that didn't happen and then Spotify pretended to be awesome, but isn't and I'm sad about that. Damn, I should check to see if there is still music on Limewire or is there nothing but viruses and porn left?

Recent Call Log Paid

Here it is, my most recent addition to the Amazon Appstore. My goal is to get it into the Free App of the Day promotion, or as the cool kids call it FAD! Hopefully I don't get screwed like these folks... I've got two things going for me that these guys don't, I'm not paying monthly for servers and I'm not as good a developer as they are. What does this do for me? Well, I won't be bogged down by server issues and I don't have any better chance to promote my app than this. The popularity of the Amazon Appstore is growing and I'd like to hop on the explosion! Please Amazon, help me out!

Gamesville.com

I am utterly addicted to this shizznit. I haven't won a dime yet, but the games alone are addicting. All of them are completely free to play and give you many opportunities to win money. There is a payout every thirty days based on the number of games total that you have played during that time. You earn this whether you are winning the games or not. The payouts for this include, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100. To reach the 100 dollars it seems that you have to play 24/7 the whole month, but it is hard to say since I have only been on the site for a few days and barely a quarter of the way to 5. There is an option for $4 monthly fee which doubles your jackpots, that's neat and all but I like winning for free! There is also a section labeled cash competitions that directs you to the worldwinners.com website. Another one that I started just before trying out gamesville. Worldwinners looks fun, but requires you to pay money before you can win any money, and you have a chance of losing money. On that site you pay to play a game, if you beat your opponent you win an amount greater than you paid... I don't like my chances with that method, so I stick to gamesville. So far, I have found my favorite game to be Quick-Draw Poker. It seems to be the quickest way to get points, plus you have a chance to win a collecting jackpot. The pot raises by a buck every couple games. If you catch yourself on the site, you may just find jonbze raking in the cash! Check it out.

Home Screen Call Logs

Haven't touched them in a while, but hopefully that hasn't stopped you from being all over my apps... Just put in an update for my call log widget, opened up the choice in settings to allow for dialing instead of restricting to direct calling . Not sure if people were getting frustrated with accidentally calling people from the home screen but I was. My damn T-Mobile mytouch is so slow and crappy that the freezing was causing me to call family a little more than I wanted to... Anyway, hope you are still enjoying the app and I shall continue to improve upon it. As always, thanks for the support!